AOC say's it's "straight up racist" to avoid Chinese restaurants !

[Billiejeens]

I don't care what a dingbat like AOC thinks.

Probably more likely to get sickened at a fast food joint than at a Chinese restaurant.

I'm making a deliberate decision to patronize Chinese restaurants more because they are suffering from misplaced fears.

Why is it misplaced, when we know for a fact the back kitchens of Chinese restaurants are likely to be inhabited by Chinese immigrants, that you have no idea how long they have been here, and what region they are from ?

I call it limiting a persons potential exposure.

Back room workers of Chinese-origin probably have not recently arrived from Wuhan. They've likely been here longer than six months. The restaurant owners are likely just as cautious as they don't want to be infected.

But if we really want to limit potential exposure, we'd eat only food that we produce on our own land and not risk going out at all. I suppose I'm too lazy to go that route. I'm not going to let fear rule my life and cripple my social outings.

I'm making a deliberate decision to patronize Chinese restaurants more because they are suffering from misplaced fears. -


Those 2 sentences seem a tad incongrous, actually.

 

[DGS49]

It is said that even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And so it is with AOC. Occasionally through nothing more than serendipity she occasionally says something that is not manifestly stupid.

This is it.

It is 100% racist to decline to eat at Chinese restaurants right now.

 

[Billiejeens]

It is said that even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And so it is with AOC. Occasionally through nothing more than serendipity she occasionally says something that is not manifestly stupid.

This is it.

It is 100% racist to decline to eat at Chinese restaurants right now.

Can you explain your reasoning?

 

[Alan Stallion]

54 years of age.

Not years of height?

I'm thinking for future inquiries to go with age in terms of color... right now I'm age turquoise, turning sea-green next month.

 

[Unkotare]

54 years of age.

Not years of height?

I'm thinking for future inquiries to go with age in terms of color... right now I'm age turquoise, turning sea-green next month.

Wait until you hit purple. That’s when the color really catches up with you.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Are people afraid to go to Italian restaurants as well?

If the kitchens of most all Italian restaurants were filled with underground Italian immigrants, then probably so.

Have you researched the identity of all Chinese and Italian restaurants in your area?

Look, I'm not concerned about Italian restaurants here. Please stop the deflection.
This is exclusively about Chinese restaurants and the amount of Chinese labor used, and in case you hadn't noticed, it's pretty common that most of the back room staff is Chinese, and many are here very recent.

America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers

 

[Unkotare]

Are people afraid to go to Italian restaurants as well?

If the kitchens of most all Italian restaurants were filled with underground Italian immigrants, then probably so.

Have you researched the identity of all Chinese and Italian restaurants in your area?

Look, I'm not concerned about Italian restaurants here. Please stop the deflection.
This is exclusively about Chinese restaurants and the amount of Chinese labor used, and in case you hadn't noticed, it's pretty common that most of the back room staff is Chinese, and many are here very recent.

America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers

You realize there have been a lot of cases in Italy, right?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I could eat chicken fried rice all day and still not be sick of it, I love it so much.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[aaronleland]

I don't think it's racist. I think it's silly.

Why?

At this rate China isn't even being hardest hit. You'd be safer at your local Chinese restaurant than Italian restaurant..

This strain came out of Wuhan, and you have no idea if China is giving us all of the facts regarding their numbers of infected.

In the meantime, you and AOC should read this:

The Kitchen Network
America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers.

Chinatown employment agencies can get immigrants kitchen jobs in a few hours.Photograph by Annie Ling


In a strip mall on a rural stretch of Maryland’s Indian Head Highway, a gaudy red façade shaped like a pagoda distinguishes a Chinese restaurant from a line of bland storefronts: a nail salon, a liquor store, and a laundromat. On a mild Friday morning this July, two customers walked into the dimly lit dining room. It was half an hour before the lunch service began, and, aside from a few fish swimming listlessly in a tank, the room was deserted.

In the back, steam was just starting to rise from pots of soup; two cooks were chopping ginger at a frenzied pace. Most of the lunch crowd comes in for the buffet, and it was nowhere near ready. “Customers are here already!” the restaurant’s owner, a wiry Chinese man in his fifties, barked. He dropped a heavy container onto the metal counter with a crash. “How can you possibly be moving this slowly?”


The senior cook, a lanky twenty-nine-year-old who goes by Rain, had been working in Maryland for almost two months. He stood silently frying noodles in a wok, his loose bangs tucked into a trucker hat with the band name Linkin Park written across the brow. “You’re too slow!” the boss yelled at the other cook, who had arrived only a few days earlier. Rain stayed focussed on the buffet dishes. He was weighing the possibility of getting a cigarette break soon. There was no sense in getting into trouble defending a co-worker he hardly knew.


Rain was born in a village in rural China. He had left his family, walked through a desert, and gone tens of thousands of dollars into debt to reach the United States. From Manhattan, he had taken a late-night Chinatown bus, which stopped at freeway off-ramps to discharge other restaurant workers, whose bosses picked them up and took them to strip malls along Interstate 95. He was in his fourth year of restaurant work and felt a growing pride in his fried noodles and sautéed shrimp.

The other cook set down his knife and squared off with the boss. “I have worked in a lot of restaurants, and none of those bosses complained!” he said. “If you’re so worried about it, why don’t you come do it yourself?” The cook stormed out of the kitchen, on his way to catch a bus back to New York. Rain sighed. The next forty-eight hours were the busiest of the week, and he would be the only cook in the kitchen. “You think I was wrong to talk to him like that?” the boss asked. Rain didn’t answer.


There are more than forty thousand Chinese restaurants across the country—nearly three times the number of McDonald’s outlets. There is one in Pinedale, Wyoming (population 2,043), and one in Old Forge, New York (population 756); Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania (population 1,085), has three. Most are family operations, staffed by immigrants who pass through for a few months at a time, living in houses and apartments that have been converted into makeshift dormitories. The restaurants, connected by Chinese-run bus companies to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, make up an underground network—supported by employment agencies, immigrant hostels, and expensive asylum lawyers—that reaches back to villages and cities in China, which are being abandoned for an ideal of American life that is not quite real.

Rain, who asked that I use his adopted English name to protect his identity, is reedy and slight, with a wide face and sloping cheekbones. He is observant, in no hurry to speak, but he is more cagey than timid. Like his boss, and like everyone else who works at the restaurant, he is primarily concerned with saving as much money as possible. He needs to pay the snakehead that got him to the U.S. and send money to his family in China. He harbors the vague suspicion that everyone around him is angling for more money, less work, or some other benefit at his expense. So, instead of conversation, Rain occupies himself with the math of a transient cook: the time it takes to clean the shrimp, the days before he can visit his girlfriend in New York, and the balance of his debts. At night, he lies on a cot in his boss’s otherwise empty living room, mulling the slow processing of his green card. During the day, if he’s feeling bold, he walks across the strip-mall parking lot to order lunch at Subway, pointing at the menu when he doesn’t know the English word for something.

“I understand why he acts like this,” Rain told me, about his boss. “He’s been working in that restaurant for almost twenty years. He goes back and forth between the restaurant and the dorm where we live. Back and forth, back and forth, every day for years.” The boss’s wife and kids are in China. “You do this kind of work for that long, and you start to lose perspective.” Rain pinched his fingers together. “Your world is this small.”

I met Rain in New York’s Chinatown, standing under a sign that read, “Lucky Days Employment Agency.” He had left his previous restaurant job, at a takeout place in Connecticut, a week before, and after a few days off he was looking for a new job. “You can look online, but nobody does,” Rain said. “This is easier.”

The corner of Eldridge and Forsyth, at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, is cluttered with employment agencies that do business in Chinese. Signs identify the Xingdao Restaurant Employment Agency, the Red Red Restaurant Employment Agency, and the Successful Restaurant Employment Agency. “There are only three jobs a Chinese immigrant can get without papers,” a woman from Beijing told me. “You can work at a massage parlor, you can work doing nails, or you can work in a restaurant.” People come here looking for work as busboys, waiters, or cooks.

It was Sunday, the busiest day of the week, and job seekers spilled out of the agencies, down stairwells, and out into the streets. In tiny local canteens, they ate spicy peanut noodles and pork dumplings before resuming the hunt. The corner gets quieter as the weekend approaches. Bosses don’t want new employees showing up on a busy Friday or Saturday; even an experienced chef requires a few hours to learn a new menu.

Each agency consists of a narrow room with a desk behind bars and employs a small staff of women who sit flanked by phones and notebooks. Stickers pasted to the bars differentiate jobs in New Jersey, Long Island, and upstate New York. Most everything else is just “out of state.” Rain moved among the offices, weaving through the crowd. “All the agencies are about the same,” he said, watching a Chinese couple pass from one door to the next. “But your chances are better if you leave your phone number with all of them.” The women behind the bars scribble the information in college-ruled notebooks. Then, Rain said, you sit around in stairwells and on sidewalks and wait for them to call. Job seekers have to be ready to leave within hours, and Rain expected to be on a bus by the end of the day.

America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers

If you patronize a Chinese restaurant located in the same strip mall as a liquor store and laundromat you deserve coronavirus.

 

[aaronleland]

I'm thinking of going to this Chinese buffet in my area tonight, just knowing that it will be clear of the retards that usually go there.

 

[wamose]

That lady is a wealth of misinformed information.

 

[Billiejeens]

I'm thinking of going to this Chinese buffet in my area tonight, just knowing that it will be clear of the retards that usually go there.

Not completely

 

[aaronleland]

I'm thinking of going to this Chinese buffet in my area tonight, just knowing that it will be clear of the retards that usually go there.

Not completely

Why do you hurt me?

 

[Alan Stallion]

If you patronize a Chinese restaurant located in the same strip mall as a liquor store and laundromat you deserve coronavirus.

The one I ate at Sunday was indeed that, in that exact order.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

God this woman is disgusting !

I will say 'STRAIGHT UP' that I'm avoiding Chinese restaurants !!!

Have you ever seen some of the workers at Chinese restaurants ? Many are recent immigrants that work in the kitchens.

ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez has slammed people who are avoiding going to Asian restaurants as "just straight-up" racist.

Many Asian restaurants have reported losing business as people associate China with the virus.

AOC has been a big voice in the democratic party on moral issues and has even gone head to head with Trump on racism.

During last night's video, the congresswoman called people out for boycotting Asian restaurants for fear of coronavirus, forcing many to close from a shortage of footfall.

She said: "It sounds almost so silly to say but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants"


"They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus."

Chinese customers have been suffering racism too, with some businesses refusing to serve them, and slurs on social media calling for China to be "nuked".

AOC brands people 'straight up racist’ as coronavirus outbreak sees diners abandon Asian restaurants

It's not racist but it's pretty stupid.

I love the family that runs my favorite restaurant and would not hesitate to eat there.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Are people afraid to go to Italian restaurants as well?

If the kitchens of most all Italian restaurants were filled with underground Italian immigrants, then probably so.

Have you researched the identity of all Chinese and Italian restaurants in your area?

Look, I'm not concerned about Italian restaurants here. Please stop the deflection.
This is exclusively about Chinese restaurants and the amount of Chinese labor used, and in case you hadn't noticed, it's pretty common that most of the back room staff is Chinese, and many are here very recent.

America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers

You realize there have been a lot of cases in Italy, right?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I'm thinking of going to this Chinese buffet in my area tonight, just knowing that it will be clear of the retards that usually go there.

Cool, go for it bro !

 

[DigitalDrifter]

God this woman is disgusting !

I will say 'STRAIGHT UP' that I'm avoiding Chinese restaurants !!!

Have you ever seen some of the workers at Chinese restaurants ? Many are recent immigrants that work in the kitchens.

ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez has slammed people who are avoiding going to Asian restaurants as "just straight-up" racist.

Many Asian restaurants have reported losing business as people associate China with the virus.

AOC has been a big voice in the democratic party on moral issues and has even gone head to head with Trump on racism.

During last night's video, the congresswoman called people out for boycotting Asian restaurants for fear of coronavirus, forcing many to close from a shortage of footfall.

She said: "It sounds almost so silly to say but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants"


"They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus."

Chinese customers have been suffering racism too, with some businesses refusing to serve them, and slurs on social media calling for China to be "nuked".

AOC brands people 'straight up racist’ as coronavirus outbreak sees diners abandon Asian restaurants

It's not racist but it's pretty stupid.

I love the family that runs my favorite restaurant and would not hesitate to eat there.

That's fine, but I think you're missing the point.

 

[Polishprince]

God this woman is disgusting !

I will say 'STRAIGHT UP' that I'm avoiding Chinese restaurants !!!

Have you ever seen some of the workers at Chinese restaurants ? Many are recent immigrants that work in the kitchens.

ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez has slammed people who are avoiding going to Asian restaurants as "just straight-up" racist.

Many Asian restaurants have reported losing business as people associate China with the virus.

AOC has been a big voice in the democratic party on moral issues and has even gone head to head with Trump on racism.

During last night's video, the congresswoman called people out for boycotting Asian restaurants for fear of coronavirus, forcing many to close from a shortage of footfall.

She said: "It sounds almost so silly to say but there's a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants"


"They're not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus."

Chinese customers have been suffering racism too, with some businesses refusing to serve them, and slurs on social media calling for China to be "nuked".

AOC brands people 'straight up racist’ as coronavirus outbreak sees diners abandon Asian restaurants

Some people really aren't into chop suey, to call them "racist" for their food preferences is sort of crazy.

 

[tigerred59]

Note to AOC....Look bitch, I have been eating off and on for years "special fried rice" and to this day, at 62 I couldn't tell you what kinda meat they use in that rice....We have gone through the swine flu, the bird flu and now this Corona flue with the Chinese ppl, these smart intelligent Harvard locked down people, that can't keep soy sauce off of shit that should be left alone....so kiss my ass!! I'm eating canned soup today!!